One
of parents’ most important duties is to protect their children
from harmful sexual values and behaviors. Yet many public schools force
potentially harmful, sometimes shockingly explicit sex education on
their students. Most of the time, parents have no control over the content
of these classes. Occasionally, a group of parents finds out about a
particularly obnoxious sex education class and protests to the principal
or local school board. The class may be dropped, only to be replaced
by another class that teaches equally objectionable material, again
without parent’s consent. School authorities’ attitude towards
parents on this issue shows their anti-parent bias, and their contempt
for parent’s rights to control the values their children are taught.

Many school authorities insist that children need comprehensive sex
education from kindergarten through high school. They believe parents
can't be trusted because they have shameful feelings about sex or have
“outdated” moral or sexual values. School authorities, claiming
that they know best regarding sex education, usurp parents’ role,
allegedly for the “good of the children.” In doing so, they
show contempt for parents’ rights, values, and common sense.

Many sex education classes indoctrinate children with sexual values
that can cause them irreparable harm. According to Christopher J. Klicka,
author of “The Right Choice, Home Schooling,” sex
education textbooks used in public schools throughout the country teach
that any kind of sex is acceptable, including adultery, homosexuality,
masturbation, and premarital sex. In effect, the textbooks preach that
it’s OK for kids to engage in any kind of sex that they feel “comfortable”
with. .

Horror stories about sex education classes and flagrant violations of
parents’ rights confront us from around the country. Here are
just a few of those stories:

• On March 19, 1996, a public school in East
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania made 59 sixth-grade girls submit to a genital
examination as part of a routine physical. The school did not ask for
parental consent. During the exam, school officials blocked the exit
doors and refused to let the crying and pleading young girls call their
parents.

• In Stephens County, Georgia, parents were shocked
to discover that their fourteen and fifteen year old daughters had been
driven to a birth control clinic by a public school staff member without
their knowledge. The county clinic administered AIDS tests and Pap smears
to the girls and gave them birth control pills and condoms. The school
denied parents access to the test results and defended its actions on
the grounds that the counselor believed that she was doing what was
best for the girls.

• The Pacific Justice Institute filed a lawsuit
on behalf of parents against the Novato [California] Unified School
District for authorizing pro homosexual presentations without any prior
notice or consent. According to the Pacific Justice Institute Press
Release, “The presentations entitled “Cootie Shots,”
exposed elementary school children as young as seven years old with
skits containing gay and lesbian overtures. The presentations were followed
by question and answer sessions about what constitutes ‘normal’
families and acceptance of those who choose the homosexual lifestyle.”

• Carol (last name withheld for privacy), a schoolteacher,
couldn’t believe what she was being asked to teach in her sex
education class. The curriculum forced her to show second-graders pictures
of nude boys and girls and ask them to name body parts. School authorities
told Carol and her fellow elementary school teachers that there were
no absolute moral rules, so she shouldn’t be concerned about what
she had to teach the children.

• In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, parents became
furious about a comprehensive survey given to elementary school children
in the Gateway School District. The five-to-ten-year-old students were
asked questions regarding “forced sex, the torture of animals,
the use of guns, and setting fires.” Many of the children were
so upset by these questions that they became physically ill, started
bed wetting, or began having nightmares. By the time these problems
were brought to light, the survey had already been given to over 1,500
children in the Pittsburgh area.

• A Massachusetts Department of Education employee
described the pleasures of homosexual sex to a group of high school
students at a state sponsored workshop on March 25, [2000] at Tufts
[University], this way: “Fisting [forcing one's entire hand into
another person's rectum or vagina] often gets a bad rap. . . . [It's]
an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be
that close and intimate with . . . [and] to put you into an exploratory
mode.”

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•
“On March 25, [2000] the Massachusetts Department of Education,
the Governor's Commission For Gay and Lesbian Youth, and GLSEN [Gay
and Lesbian and Straight Education Network] co sponsored a statewide
conference at Tufts University called ‘Teach Out.’ Among
the goals were to build more GSAs [Gay/Straight Alliance clubs] in Massachusetts
and expand homosexual teaching into the lower grades. Scores of gay
friendly teachers and administrators attended. They received state ‘professional
development credits.’ Teenagers and children as young as twelve
were encouraged to come from around the state, and many were bused [sic]
in from their home districts. Homosexual activists from across the country
were also there.”

• A mother was shocked and outraged when she
discovered that her son had to read a novel about teenage gay pornography
for his English class. The woman had enrolled her son in Newton South
High School’s summer program to help prepare him for the English
portion of the Massachusetts State Standardized Test. Little did she
know that her son's teacher had recently bragged in a Boston Globe newspaper
article how he was quietly introducing ‘gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgender’ subjects into his academic high school classes.

“In this class, the teacher passed out a copy of The Perks of
Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky to each child as the class’s
required reading assignment, with instructions to write an essay on
the book when they finished it.”

“The book is aimed at teenagers, and is told from a teenage boy's
perspective. The book contains explicit references and discussion regarding:
Sexual acts between teenagers, male masturbation, oral-genital sex,
a great deal of profanity, male homosexual acts between teenage boys,
including kissing, seduction, ‘having a crush,’ and anal
sex, illegal drug use, homosexual acts between men and boys, sex between
a boy and a dog, female masturbation using an object.”11

• In Newton, Massachusetts, the school forced
ninth-grade girls in the health classes to go to a drug store and buy
condoms and practice putting them on a banana.

When parents who find out about such classes vehemently object, school
authorities often arrogantly dismiss parents’ complaints. A Michigan
state Senate committee studying the problem of parental consent in public
schools, found:

“The
treatment of parents with the temerity to object to sex education curricula
also reflects a more general attitude toward the role of parents in
public education today. “There is a pervasive attitude among many
administrators and health educators,” the Michigan Senate committee
found, “that they know best what children need. They communicate
to parents that they are the professionals and the parents are unschooled
amateurs.” Too often, the committee found that parents were treated
as if they were an “incidental biological appendage in the raising
of their children.”

I
apologize to the reader for the long list of graphic horror stories.
Unfortunately, the examples I listed barely touch what goes on in sex
education classes throughout the country. Parents should exert their
rights and make sure their local public schools are not exposing their
children to such shocking sex education classes.

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Better
yet, because arrogant government (public) schools have utter contempt
for parents’ rights and routinely disregard parents’ complaints
about sex education classes, parents should consider a better alternative
for their children’s sake. They should seriously consider taking
their children out of public school, permanently, and finding
low-cost education alternatives such as Internet private schools, as
I describe in my book “Public Schools, Public Menace.”

Mr. Turtel has
written two books, published over fifty articles, and has been interviewed
in both print and broadcast media on the subject. His latest book, Public
Schools, Public Menace has garnered national media attention – recently,
for example, Dr. Laura Schlessinger featured the book on her nationally
syndicated radio show.

Joel Turtel is
available to discuss his book Public Schools, Public Menace in the media,
at conferences, or with individual groups. Be warned though, you may be
shocked by the revelations he has uncovered in America's public-school
system.

Many school authorities insist that children need
comprehensive sex education from kindergarten through high school. They
believe parents can't be trusted because they have shameful feelings about
sex or have “outdated” moral or sexual values.